Pages

LINK

Google Hangouts settings

As soon as Android update completed, you will see software
called “Hangouts” on your phone. After some research, I understand that it’s
nothing but upgraded version of Gtalk. It will automatically log you into Hangouts/
Gtalk if you have Gmail application installed and you logged into it on your

phone. I personally always select “Invisible” in Gtalkbut Hangouts expose you to your friends as “Online”
and funny thing is friends started saying “Hi” to me and I am surprised from
these messages are coming from and how dothey know I am online. Later I realized that making Gmail application logged
in user as “online” in Hangouts is the default setting.

A good thing about Hang out is, you can do Video chat from
this application and you can use Google/ Gmail account.

Steps to Sign out of Hang out are as follows. Unfortunately, I
couldn’t find an option to make me invisible in Hangouts.

1.Open “Hangouts” and navigate to Settings

2.In settings, go to “Account” section and click
on Sigh Out.

After signing out of Hang out, I felt relaxed :)

Later I found an option to uninstall Hangouts application from my
phone, steps are as follows.

On Samsung Galaxy S2

1.Go to Settings –Application Manager

2.Select “hangouts” application from list and
click on it.

You will see “Uninstall updates” option after clicking this, it
will uninstall Hangouts and leave with Gtalk which you cannot uninstall ;-)